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BENJAMIN OGLE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
rate of labour for the time, which supervisor or supervisors
shall issue certificates to those by whom such labour may be rendered,
expressing therein, in writing, the duration or time of such
labour, the rate thereof by the day, by whom and for whose account
the same was rendered, and the whole account of value thereof,
to be received in taxes by the collector of said county, in discharge
of monies due or owing for his particular tax. |
1800.
CHAP. 58. |
22. AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any person
or persons have
erected, or shall erect, in the county aforesaid, any mill or mills
on any branch or run, where any public road crosses, or shall
cross, and have erected, or shall erect, any dam for such mill or
mills, such person or persons, or the owner, possessor or occupier,
of such mill or mills, shall be and they are hereby obliged to make
the top of the said dam twelve feet wide at the least, and make good
and substantial bridges over the waste and race of the said mills
and dams twelve feet wide, and the same keep in good repair; and
if the owner or owners, possessor or occupier, of any such mill or
mills, shall refuse or neglect to do what is by this act required, and
shall be thereof legally convicted, he, she or they, shall forfeit and
pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for each neglect or offence,
to be recovered and applied as aforesaid. |
Where mills are
erected over any
road, top of the
dam to be 12 feet
wide. |
23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any damages
shall be
allowed to any person or persons for opening any public road
through his, her, or their land, the payment shall not be made until
the road be actually laid out and opened. |
Damages, when to
be paid. |
24. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no supervisor
shall proceed to
work on any public road with a less number of able bodies labourers
than eight, unless it be for removing some fallen trees, or other
obstruction, on forfeiture of his wages for the time that a less number
shall be employed, to be deducted out of his allowance by the
levy court. |
Supervisors not to
work with less
than eight labourers. |
25. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court
aforesaid shall have full power to contract with any person or persons
for the opening or clearing any road hereafter laid out in
Kent county, and for the improving and keeping in repair any road,
or such part thereof as, in their judgment, shall seem most adviseable
and for the interest of the county; and where any person or
persons shall contract for the keeping in repair of any public road
in virtue of this act, and shall neglect to keep the same in such repair
as it is the duty of the supervisors by law to do, then such
person or persons, so contracting, shall be subject to the same penalties
as supervisors of public roads in Kent county in like cases
are, to be recovered and applied in the same manner; and every
person or persons, so contracting with the justices of the levy court
for Kent county shall give bond to the state of Maryland, with such
security as the justices of the levy court shall approve of, and in
such sum or penalty as they shall require, for the performance of
such contract, and such contractors shall have and exercise all the
powers which supervisors of public roads in Kent county may have
by virtue of this act, except the powers given to supervisors by the
eighteenth section of this act. |
Levy court to contract
for opening
roads. |
26. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act passed
at November
session, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, * entitled, An act relating
to the public roads in Kent county, be and the same is hereby
repealed. |
An act repealed.
* Ch. 81. |
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